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tlie carolina watchman vol x third series salisbury n c september 25 1879 no 49 a second trial tt was commencement at g ihe people were pouring . tn t,e church as 1 entered it rather jijij i i kiiuliu r the centre of the audi hf.iv . i o i already taken i pressed ; looking to the right and eft jin a vacancy on the very 1 found one ' fere a little ghl moved along to a|;erooui for me looking into my with large gray eyes whose . was softened by very long her face was open and fresh newly blown rose before sunrise , ansl again i found my eyes lg to the rose-like face and each the gray eyes moved halfsmil mine evidently the child to make up wiih ne ami then with a bright smile she return j ,- dropped handkerchief and i thank you !" we seemed fairly uduced other persons coining nto tlie seat crowded me quite dose upagaiust the little girl so that we â€¢ wry well acquainted there's going t be a great crowd 1 to inc y,s i replied people always ijke to see how schoolboys are made men ih-r lace beamed with pleasure and 3 she said : lmy brother's going to graduate goiug to speak ; i've brought ;' iwers to throw ts him he v.'tc uol greenhouse favorites jic-t old-fashioned domestic flowers micii as we associate with the dear lm thers but i thought they wi i neein sweel ami beautiful to him sister's sake ' flint is my brul her she went ou pointing with her uoscgay theoue with the light hair 1 no she said smiling ami g her head in in nocent reproof . imely one with n-il ha ir ; handsome one wit brown u avy hair his eyes iook brown io >, i ley ain't â€” they are dark-blue - . sl his hand up to his . now \ mi see him now don'l in an eager way she looked from met iiiiii ami from him to me as if â– important fate depended upon my identifying her brother iim 1 said lie's a very good â– : bother yes lie's beautiful she said with artless delight ; and he's so good and ulieil so hard he has taken care ofme every since mama died here * iiameon the programme lie is e valedictorian but he has an , l'"i ail that 1 suv in the little creature's famil iarity with ihose technical terms that sl'e iki'i closely ident died herself with iw brothers studies hopes aud suc hetjtought.at first she continued tliat he would write on the romance of monastic life tat a strange sound these long ffclrad whispered from her child : her interest in her brother's â– ** has sbimpted them uu thechildis nieilll,rv and to her thev were ordin y things i;ilt lien she went he declared lilat|,e would rather write on llis r:":l1 parallels and he's got a real ation and he says it beauti â€¢ lie said it a good many times knÂ°w it by heart oh it be ln pretty aud so grand this is ay it begins she added eneour the interest she must have amid the permuta jsandcoo_bi nations of the actors ' fofces which make up the eidoscope of history we of p that a destiny's baud ' n hless the baby i thought ., i Â° , gaown into her bright proud ' ' ca t describe how very odd ili;!l it did seem to have those 18 words rolling out of the tÂ°s'Â«fautile mouth ; uiui striking up put an end rotation and to the confer . the exercises progressed and jj^ed i nearer and nearer the ef rite ic r ntere8twasconce y my little friend became exci j,ul r tl tg lis's.s her eyes grew lar ej0 br'gkter two red spots glow a htr cheeks she touched-up th .' flowers manifestly making the offer ing ready for the shrine now it's his turn she said turu ing to me a face in which pride ami delight aud anxiety seemed about equally miughd but when the over ture was p!ay-d through ami his name was called the child seemed in her eagerness ts forget me and all the earth biside him sm rose t her feetaud is an d fo waid fora better view s>l her beloved as he mounted ou tii â€¢ speaker's stand i knew by her deep breathing that her heart was throbbing in her throat 1 knew too by the way her brother came to the front that he was tremb ling the hands hung limp ; his face was palid aud the lips blue with cold i felt anxious tiie child too seemed to discern that things wove not well with him something like fear show ed in her face he made an automatic bow then a bewildered struggling look came into his face then a helpless look and then he stood staring vacantly like a somnambulist at the waiting audience the moments of painful suspense went by and still he stood as if struck dumb i saw how it was he had been seized with stage-fright alas little sister ! she turned her large dismayed eyes upou me he's forgotten it she said then a swift change came into her face a a strong determined look ; ami on the funeral-like silence ofthe room broke the sweet grave child voice amid the permutation's au.1 com b in i i > s of i lie actors ami the forces which make up the kaleidoscope of history we often lind that a turn i>f destiny's hand ' everybody about us turned and look ed fhe breathless silence the sweet childish voice the childish face the the long unehildlike words produced a weird effect unt the help had come too late the unhappy brother was already staggering in humiliation from the stage lhe band quickly struck up ami waves of lively music were rolled out to cover the defeat i gave the little sister a glance in wliich 1 meant to show he intense sympathy i felt ; but she did not see me her eyes swimming with tears were on her brother's face i put my arm around her she was tos absorb ed to heed the caress and before 1 could appreciate her purpose she was on her way to the shame-stricken voting man sitting with a face like a statue's when he saw her by his side the set face relaxed and ti quick mist came into ids eyes fhe young men got closer together to make room for her she sat down beside him laid her flowers sin his knee and slipped her hand in his i could not keep my eyes from her sweet pitying face i saw her whisper to him he bending a little to catch her words later i found out that she was asking him if he knew his piece now and that he answered yes when the young man next had spoken ami while the band was play ing the child to the brother's great surprise made her way up the stage steps and pressed through the throng ol professors and trustees and dis tinguished visitors up to the college president if you please sir she said with a little courtesy will you ami the trus tees let my brother try again he knows his piece now for a moment the president star ed at her through his gold-bowed spectacles and then appreciating the child's petition he smiled on her and went down and spoke to the young man who had failed so it happened that when the band ceased playing it was briefly announ ced that mr would now deliv er his oration â€” historical paral lels amid the permutations and com binations of the actors and the forces which make up the great kaleidoscope of history .' tbis the little sister whispered to him as be rose to ans wer tbe summons a ripple of heightened and ex pectant interest passed over the au dience and then sat stone-still as though fearing to breathe lest the speaker might again take fright no danger the hero in the youth was aroused he went nt iiis piece with a set purpose tn conquer to redeem himself and to bring tiie smile back into the child's tear-stained face i watched the face during the speaking the wide eyes the parted lips the whole rapt being said that the beath lr audience was forgotten that her spirit was moving with his ami when theuddress was ended with tiie ardent ; baudon ol une who catches enthusiasm in the iealiz.it ion tliat i.e i.s fighting down a wrong judgment and conquering a sympathy the effect was really thrilling that dignified audience broke into raptur ous applause : bouquets intended for the valedictorian rained like a tem pest and the child who had helped to save that day â€” that one beaming little face i;i its pride and gladness is something to be forever remember ed how to please a woman it is not always easy to please a wo man this is an axiom the truth of which has been recognized in all ages when socrates said to his jailers jive ine the hemlock ; perhaps this will meet xantoppe's views and then again perhaps it won't he obvi ously had in mind the thousand and more time that he had vainly tried to hit that lady's humor and avert from his head tiie all-avenging broom stick sometimes a woman will scold a man lor not doing some particular thing and then when he subsequen ly does that precise thing will call him a meddlesome and impertinent person so often has this occurred that a wise observer of men ami ws men once asserted that he pleases a woman best who never pleases her at all this might have beeu said by a boston philosopher out it so happen ed that it was not in fact u very eminent philosopher of that school once seriously contemplated saying it but refrained on the ground that al though ii was sufficiently paradoxical it was uot sufficiently obscure tsi be ! really profound there recently occurred near st louis an interesting incident wliich painfully illustrated the difficulty of pleasing a woman it should be men tioned that the woman in question who was young and pretty was also verv wet and everybody kuownsthat a wet woman i.s far more exacting and captious than a dry woman still i inasmuch as this particular young woman was excessively hard to please when she was thoroughly dry it may be assumed that her wetness did not make any material change in her char acter the story i s undoubtedly a true one for it appears in substauee in a missouri democratic paper which cannot tcil a lie as however few of t ie subscribers to the paper can read it can hardly be said that the story has been fairly published in the town of la grange a small settlement on a branch of the missouri river resides au extremly beautiful young hisly among her lovers are two who have hitherto been popular ly regarded as the leaders ofthe field ami on whom the local betting has been very nearly even one of the j two â€” air scott â€” is a young man of the most gentle aud amiable disposi tion whose constant effort is to please his lady-love the apples that young ma iias bought ber the times that he has taken her to ride and the money that he has lavished in ice-cream for her benefit could not be computed without a large consumption of chalk ! in point of moral character he has seldom been equaled and never excel j led lie is especially conspicuous for i his extreme and delicate modesty and 1 it is believed tliat in this particular i in could give odds to the most vio lently and obviously delicate maiden lady of advanced years in missouri or any other stale air dobbs his rival is in all re spects his exact opposite mr dobbs is addicted to horse-racing and other wicked ways and he has never been known to put himself to the slightest inconvenience or expense in order to gratify the young lady whom he pro i fesses to admire ou monday wed nesday and friday evenings â€” the l ether evenings of the week being pre empted by mr scott â€” he is accustom , ed to call on miss wilson â€” whieh bv i the way is the young lady's name â€” and sit for an hour with his chair i tipped back against the wall discuss ! , ing politics with old mr wilson in almost any other town the betting ' would have been heavily in favor of j mr scott but the people of la grange knowing mr dobb's character and being persuaded that when he under , takes ts do anything the chances are ' that he will do it at any cost were rather inclined to back mr dobbs | in fact for the last six months the ; betting has several times beeu ten to ; nine on dobbs and on one occasion j when he bought a new pistol on wednesday morning so hopeful did | his marriage prospects seem to his backers that they offered eight to six on him with few takers it was of ten remaiked that mr scott lacked , energy and that when mr dobbs was | entirely ready to marry the girl he ! would kill mr scott pitch old mr wilson out of the window and carry i off his bride to the nearest justice ofthe | peace three weeks ago miss wilson ! took part in a pic nic excursion and i messrs dobbs and scott of course ' were also in the party the entire i company including say thirty persons : of assorted sexes were lounging after ! dinner on the bank of the stream when | miss wilson suddenly felt a desire to i walk out on a log lhat projected into j the water mr scott implored her | not to do it and mr dobbs tempo rarily removing his pipe from his ; mouth remarked you'll get pretty | blanked wet if you try it neverthe j less the willful beauty persisted in ; her purpose she had nearly reached : the end ofthe log when it turned un i der her aud with a harp shriek she i fell headforemost into the stream j | the water was about four feet dee i with a bottom of soft mud and in this j hitter the head of the unfortunate young lady penetrated some distance : being thus anchored as it were her ; feet waved wildly above the surface and mutely begged for help it was au awful and impressive scene and most of the ladies who were present i subsequently said that no one could ! call them prudish they must say that i miss wilson's conduct was shameful mr scott and mr dobbs simulta i neously rushed to the rescue the j former first reached miss wilson's feet i but instead of seizing them and pul ling ber out stood as though wrapp ed in profouud thought in another moment mr dobbs was at his side and would have caught the nearest of the waving feet had not mr scott laid his hand n his arm and begged ! him to reflect it will be said mr i scott lo the last degree indelicate to i pull her out by the l'eet and i am ! sure she would not like it at any rate let us ask the geutlmen to with j draw and then leave the ladies to ex [ trieate our poor friend to this mr ; dobbs simply made a monosyllabic land theological reply and promptly hauled miss wilson out when that young lady had been somewhat repaired so that she no longer resembled an inverted unibrel i la with a curious duplex handle her first act was lo slap mr dobbs face and tell him that he was a brute ami a coward to insult her by pulling her out by the feet mr scott eager to improve the opportunity hastened to remark that he had warned mr d.ibbs not to do it and had himself refrain ed from touching her feet another slap and a demand to know if he was really fool enough to be willing to let her drown was the reply whieh as tonished mr scott after which miss wilson burst into tears and call ed her father to take her home now here was a young lady who w.is angry with one man because he had pulled her out of the water and with another because he had not done so to please such a girl was mani | festly an impossibility mr scott at all events gave up the attempt and left town that very afternoon without saying good-bye to mr dobbs who was waitiiisjr at a street cros-dng to wish him farewell with a shot-gun j a week later miss wilson married mr dobbs and although it has never been learned that he has done anything whatever to please her there is reason to believe that she is very well recon ciled to her lot â€” n y times fungi in mau the human ear is sometimes attack ed by a disease which shows itself in the form ofa running ssire ; in many cases the tympanum is destroyed audi hearing h.st before the nature of the malady is discovered the disease is ' due to the growth of a microscopic plant or fungus of the aspergillus family it especially thrives when from any cause the secretion of wax in the ear is stopped or hindered the ' microscope is a valuable assistant in the discovery ofthis fungus consumption the most disastrous malady that afflicts humanity is now said to be caused by a yeast plant that flourishes in the blood the presence ofthis fungus in the blood is readily shown by the microscope and now forms the subject of careful stuclv | among physicians dv ephraim cutter m d of bos ! ton mass has devoted much labor to this subject and we understand i has recently produced micro-photo graphs ofthe fungus with tolles re markable objective we believe that dr james ii sal isbury of cleveland ohio was among the earliest to detect and describe this ' curious yeast plant ofthe blood luck and labor many people complain of their bad ! luck when they ought to blame their own want of wisdom and action cob | den a distinguished writer in eng land thus wrote about luck and labor luck is always waiting for some thing to turn up labor with keen eyes and a strong will turns up something luck lies iu bed and wishes the postman would bring him news of a legacy labor turns out at six o'clock and with busy pen or ringing hammer lays the foundation ofa competence luck whines labor whistles luck relies on chance labor on character luck slips down to indigence labor strides upward to indepen dence didn't know it was loaded â€” a sad accieent â€” a very unfortu nate and distressing accident says the wilson advance occurred in nash county last sunday week mr spen cer lindsay called to see his neigh bor mr vv vv cooper and on en tering his house discovered a pistol lying upon the floor where mr cooper's children had been playing with it he reached down to pick it up and mrs cooper remarked that it was not loaded as if to frighten her he cocked the pistol and pointed it at her when it fired the ball enter ing mrs cooper just above the left breast and lodging under the right shoulder dr robert sills of nash ville was sent for at once and upon examining the wound pronounced it fatal slight hopes are entertained of her recovery everything is bitter to him who has gall in his mouth a fool may throw a stone into a pond ; it may take seven sages to pull it out no bones are broken by a mother's fist it is hard to say which is the most crushed : the wife's new bonnet or the unfeeling husband who sat down upon it the editor of daily papers alwavs claim to have country seats don't believe them if they have it is only a stump the world is composed of two great classes of people those who work and those who spend all their time in getting ready to work many young ladies at the sea-side just now seem to tie a string around their waists and consider themselves properly array to take a sea bath in public it is a singular fact that since 1842 there have been yellow fever cases in new orleans every year with the exceptions of 1861 18g2 1863 18g4 and 1865 there may bave been cases during those years but they were not reported â€” wilmington star saying fences this is an item that should be care fully estimated as it is one of the heav iest burdens of agriculture fences are needed only to restrain stock ; and if the stock is not pastured no fence is needed except for yards and per haps a lane to lead the cattle to the wood lot for simple exercise take the fact of fencing ninety acres into four fields for pasturing thirty cows or cattle these fields would be 22 acres and would require 720 rods of fence now if this fence cost only 1 per rod and if we suppose it to last twenty years then the decay will amount to five per cent a year and the labor of annual repair is general ly estimated at five per cent the interest on the original cost at seven per cent would be 50.40 and the ten per cent for decay and repair 72 making s122.40 as the annual expense for fencing a pasture for thirty head ofcatlle we shall see that this is more than the cost of labor for soiling the thirty head of stock mr david williams carefully prepared the fence statistics of walworth counly wis consin and after deducting for waste lands in ponds and lakes aud one-half of the division fences he makes the annual cost forthe whole cou nty about sl per acre mr prince of maine goes into an elaborate calculation of the cost of fences in that state in 18g0 and the result does not vary much from an annual cost of 1 per acre â€” the late ezra cornell took a great in terest in studying tbis question and gave his views in an address before | the state agricultural society of new j york in 18g2 and he arrived at the conclusion that the average cost of â– fencing for every acre inclosed in that | state is 1 per annum if then we | take this as a fair estimate in the old er states every acre ofthe farm must be charged at this rate or a farm of 300 acres which usually keeps about 60 head of cattle would pay a fence tax of 300 in labor and material â€” the smaller the farm and the smaller the lots the greater the cost of fence per acre tapioca cream â€” one coffee-cup of tapioca in three pints of new milk soak over night in the morning set over a kettle of boiling water let it come to a scald stirring it often add four well beaten eggs and about half a pound of white sugar stir constant j ly until it thickens set it aside to cool ; when cold flavor with vanilla ' or lemon and you will have a dish fit for a king this is now about the time of year the lady who goes out of town for her health lands up somewhere in brigh ! ton scarboro or the isle of wight ' with five large anglo-american trunks and two pet dogs she visi bly declines in weight the moment she discovers that another lady has brought seven trunks a lady's maid and a brace of pug lap dogs the impeachment trial of comp troller goldsmith of georgia is pro i gressing very slowly and circumspect i ly and it is stated by one georgia ! newspaper that thus far nothing has been developed against goldsmith nor against the state do all for god tlie practical life of the christian comprehends three distinct elements viz working fighting and suffering we have to do the will of god in our busi ness : this is working we have ts s.p psise our bosom sin and to resist tempta tion â– this is fighting we have finally to endure with cheerfulness and submis sion whatever cross the lord jesus pleases to lay upon us this i.s suffering and to be right in the practical depart ments ofthe christian life is summed up in these three things ts work devoutly to fight manfully and to suffer patitently each man's wisdom ami happiness must consist in doing as well as his faculties will admit tlie work which god sets him and now that the true motive which lifts ii i the humblest duties into a higher atmosphere and refines away their earth lines and glorifies them : whatso ever ye do do it heartily as to the lord and not unto men : knowing that of the lord ye shall receive the reward of the inheritance : for ye serve the lord christ â€” goldburn a malionaxt fkvki ra mississippi â€” new orleans september 15 â€” green ville mississippi specials report the pre valence of a malignant fever at concordia several deaths have occurred during the last week including s frank george tobin ansl attorney key tlie surround ing neighborhoods have quarantined against concordia refused to pat the statement has been made through the public press that tlie etna insurance company has refitted payment of the life policy of ths late col h c patterson of salem this is a matter of not mere family but ol general concern and we bave waited for the ex planation whieh is due of the com pain's refusal to pay over to the family of de ceased tbe amount of insurance which ho had with it it has we understood pro posed to compromise the matter by a par tial payment rt seems tons that if it owes anything it owes all and if it owes nothing on this polity it ought to have found out tliat tlie policy was invalid sometime daring the thirteen years while uol patterson was paying ap his premi ums the whole matter looks suspicious let us have some explanation af it the company is suffering from its silence if its explanation is not worse than its si lence it cannot make lt too early char ob this u well said the divobced democracy â€” what the papers and politicians say of it the hates congratulates the republi cans and says that their opponents aro worthy of their best efforts the herald says that the kobiusou ticket is st mug the world of course commends tho stalwart action of tlio regulars the star upholds the bolters the tribune says that the bolt means cornell for g oven or the philadelphia times thinks that it puts democracy under i blue light lion abram s hewitt sajs that tins defection will have no effect upou tho vote and the con vent oin acted wisely mayor cooper dsclined to be interview ed clarkson potter's friends say that ho will not accept the nomination for lieu tenant-governor john kelly is very silent hoffman follows liobiusou mb curtis unhappy about cobkell â€” the republican nomination for governor of new york is an exceedingly unfortunate one and all that has been said of the un wisdom of precisely such n nomination re mains true the importance of the result in this state both ofthe election this year and of the next is such that it was the duty ofall republicans who understood it to se lect some candidate truly representative of its principles and purposes it will not be contended that with whatever excellencies of character mr cornell is such a repre sentative he h;is been long a familiar fig ure in the parties of the state and whatever may be the personal and friendly regard entertained for him it will be denied tbat it is an extraordinary nomination to b'j made by the republican party in the st j at this time â€” harper's weekly rep the motherly instinct still there â€” a whoop-bang sort of a boy with feet as broad and flat as a vie tin trotted through the central market till he reached a stall kept by a single wo man about thirty years old halting there he yelled out : say ! say ! your little boy ikis been run over and killed by tho city hall !" oh ! oh ! heavens oh ! !" she screamed as she made a dive under the counter came up on the other side aud started to follow the boy after going ten feet she halted looked very foolish ansl all of a sudden remark ed : what a goose i am why i ain't even married !" tin survey ok the dan â€” wo had tits pleasure of a call yesterday from maj 1 ii gill united states associato engineer in charge ofthe survey of the dan river mr gill and his party have completed the survey of dan river from danville to the western limit of the sur vey above madison n c and will now proceed to make it from danville to clarksville after completing the entire survey the notes and charts will be sent ts the chief office at washington and tiie re com niendatioiis submitted as to whether the river shall b improved for the navi gation of steamboats or only for bat teaux â€” danville ( va news lath how the geese departed it is a re markable fact vouched by a witness by no means windy that the severe storm which prevailed last monday a flock of geese mar the stewart house were liter ally lifted from the ground and hurried upon the win of tlie wind rapidly out of sight and as we have reports from differ ent sections of the severity and exten sivenesa of the storm and as 110 tidings have been received from these unfortu nate geese it is supposed by our infor mant that they are still driving beforo that nub tempest into some far-off land ansl with the same velocity he saw them swept from view sad sad casualty â€” mo n rue emp cetywayo a fugitive â€” capetown aug 20 â€” the pursuit of king cetywayo con tinues hotly he baa split np his party and taken to the bush his pursuers have been within three miles of him and have some members of bis following gen ws'lslcv ikis bad a meeting with the north ern chiefs it which be informed them that the only obstacle to the settlement of peaco is the failure to capture cetywayo and that any chief harboring cetywayo will be pun ished lord gilford captured a native who 'â€¢ baa promised to show him the king's hiding j phice the bush wherein he is supposed to iÂ»c becreted ia now being surrounded by : three hundred men he won but it killed him james johnston a well known negro in lynch burg va made a bet at tlie breakfast table that he could eat more fruit than 1 any one present _ silas jones ansl peter lindsey took up ths bet and and all : three set to work eating peaches apples watermelons and grapes johnston won this bet having eaten one watermelon and a half one dozen peaches twelve bunches of grapes and four huge apple he was taken sick an hour after and died last night worktxgmes olt of work â€” ha6 gsÂ»w september 15 â€” in consequence of a resolution arrived at by tho scotch iron masters last week not yielding t demands of the workiugmen for an iii i crease of wages until the price of ir i ceeds fifty shillings per tsm fifty f fur naces have been blown out in various . parts of scotland rendering three thousand men idln

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tlie carolina watchman vol x third series salisbury n c september 25 1879 no 49 a second trial tt was commencement at g ihe people were pouring . tn t,e church as 1 entered it rather jijij i i kiiuliu r the centre of the audi hf.iv . i o i already taken i pressed ; looking to the right and eft jin a vacancy on the very 1 found one ' fere a little ghl moved along to a|;erooui for me looking into my with large gray eyes whose . was softened by very long her face was open and fresh newly blown rose before sunrise , ansl again i found my eyes lg to the rose-like face and each the gray eyes moved halfsmil mine evidently the child to make up wiih ne ami then with a bright smile she return j ,- dropped handkerchief and i thank you !" we seemed fairly uduced other persons coining nto tlie seat crowded me quite dose upagaiust the little girl so that we â€¢ wry well acquainted there's going t be a great crowd 1 to inc y,s i replied people always ijke to see how schoolboys are made men ih-r lace beamed with pleasure and 3 she said : lmy brother's going to graduate goiug to speak ; i've brought ;' iwers to throw ts him he v.'tc uol greenhouse favorites jic-t old-fashioned domestic flowers micii as we associate with the dear lm thers but i thought they wi i neein sweel ami beautiful to him sister's sake ' flint is my brul her she went ou pointing with her uoscgay theoue with the light hair 1 no she said smiling ami g her head in in nocent reproof . imely one with n-il ha ir ; handsome one wit brown u avy hair his eyes iook brown io >, i ley ain't â€” they are dark-blue - . sl his hand up to his . now \ mi see him now don'l in an eager way she looked from met iiiiii ami from him to me as if â– important fate depended upon my identifying her brother iim 1 said lie's a very good â– : bother yes lie's beautiful she said with artless delight ; and he's so good and ulieil so hard he has taken care ofme every since mama died here * iiameon the programme lie is e valedictorian but he has an , l'"i ail that 1 suv in the little creature's famil iarity with ihose technical terms that sl'e iki'i closely ident died herself with iw brothers studies hopes aud suc hetjtought.at first she continued tliat he would write on the romance of monastic life tat a strange sound these long ffclrad whispered from her child : her interest in her brother's â– ** has sbimpted them uu thechildis nieilll,rv and to her thev were ordin y things i;ilt lien she went he declared lilat|,e would rather write on llis r:":l1 parallels and he's got a real ation and he says it beauti â€¢ lie said it a good many times knÂ°w it by heart oh it be ln pretty aud so grand this is ay it begins she added eneour the interest she must have amid the permuta jsandcoo_bi nations of the actors ' fofces which make up the eidoscope of history we of p that a destiny's baud ' n hless the baby i thought ., i Â° , gaown into her bright proud ' ' ca t describe how very odd ili;!l it did seem to have those 18 words rolling out of the tÂ°s'Â«fautile mouth ; uiui striking up put an end rotation and to the confer . the exercises progressed and jj^ed i nearer and nearer the ef rite ic r ntere8twasconce y my little friend became exci j,ul r tl tg lis's.s her eyes grew lar ej0 br'gkter two red spots glow a htr cheeks she touched-up th .' flowers manifestly making the offer ing ready for the shrine now it's his turn she said turu ing to me a face in which pride ami delight aud anxiety seemed about equally miughd but when the over ture was p!ay-d through ami his name was called the child seemed in her eagerness ts forget me and all the earth biside him sm rose t her feetaud is an d fo waid fora better view s>l her beloved as he mounted ou tii â€¢ speaker's stand i knew by her deep breathing that her heart was throbbing in her throat 1 knew too by the way her brother came to the front that he was tremb ling the hands hung limp ; his face was palid aud the lips blue with cold i felt anxious tiie child too seemed to discern that things wove not well with him something like fear show ed in her face he made an automatic bow then a bewildered struggling look came into his face then a helpless look and then he stood staring vacantly like a somnambulist at the waiting audience the moments of painful suspense went by and still he stood as if struck dumb i saw how it was he had been seized with stage-fright alas little sister ! she turned her large dismayed eyes upou me he's forgotten it she said then a swift change came into her face a a strong determined look ; ami on the funeral-like silence ofthe room broke the sweet grave child voice amid the permutation's au.1 com b in i i > s of i lie actors ami the forces which make up the kaleidoscope of history we often lind that a turn i>f destiny's hand ' everybody about us turned and look ed fhe breathless silence the sweet childish voice the childish face the the long unehildlike words produced a weird effect unt the help had come too late the unhappy brother was already staggering in humiliation from the stage lhe band quickly struck up ami waves of lively music were rolled out to cover the defeat i gave the little sister a glance in wliich 1 meant to show he intense sympathy i felt ; but she did not see me her eyes swimming with tears were on her brother's face i put my arm around her she was tos absorb ed to heed the caress and before 1 could appreciate her purpose she was on her way to the shame-stricken voting man sitting with a face like a statue's when he saw her by his side the set face relaxed and ti quick mist came into ids eyes fhe young men got closer together to make room for her she sat down beside him laid her flowers sin his knee and slipped her hand in his i could not keep my eyes from her sweet pitying face i saw her whisper to him he bending a little to catch her words later i found out that she was asking him if he knew his piece now and that he answered yes when the young man next had spoken ami while the band was play ing the child to the brother's great surprise made her way up the stage steps and pressed through the throng ol professors and trustees and dis tinguished visitors up to the college president if you please sir she said with a little courtesy will you ami the trus tees let my brother try again he knows his piece now for a moment the president star ed at her through his gold-bowed spectacles and then appreciating the child's petition he smiled on her and went down and spoke to the young man who had failed so it happened that when the band ceased playing it was briefly announ ced that mr would now deliv er his oration â€” historical paral lels amid the permutations and com binations of the actors and the forces which make up the great kaleidoscope of history .' tbis the little sister whispered to him as be rose to ans wer tbe summons a ripple of heightened and ex pectant interest passed over the au dience and then sat stone-still as though fearing to breathe lest the speaker might again take fright no danger the hero in the youth was aroused he went nt iiis piece with a set purpose tn conquer to redeem himself and to bring tiie smile back into the child's tear-stained face i watched the face during the speaking the wide eyes the parted lips the whole rapt being said that the beath lr audience was forgotten that her spirit was moving with his ami when theuddress was ended with tiie ardent ; baudon ol une who catches enthusiasm in the iealiz.it ion tliat i.e i.s fighting down a wrong judgment and conquering a sympathy the effect was really thrilling that dignified audience broke into raptur ous applause : bouquets intended for the valedictorian rained like a tem pest and the child who had helped to save that day â€” that one beaming little face i;i its pride and gladness is something to be forever remember ed how to please a woman it is not always easy to please a wo man this is an axiom the truth of which has been recognized in all ages when socrates said to his jailers jive ine the hemlock ; perhaps this will meet xantoppe's views and then again perhaps it won't he obvi ously had in mind the thousand and more time that he had vainly tried to hit that lady's humor and avert from his head tiie all-avenging broom stick sometimes a woman will scold a man lor not doing some particular thing and then when he subsequen ly does that precise thing will call him a meddlesome and impertinent person so often has this occurred that a wise observer of men ami ws men once asserted that he pleases a woman best who never pleases her at all this might have beeu said by a boston philosopher out it so happen ed that it was not in fact u very eminent philosopher of that school once seriously contemplated saying it but refrained on the ground that al though ii was sufficiently paradoxical it was uot sufficiently obscure tsi be ! really profound there recently occurred near st louis an interesting incident wliich painfully illustrated the difficulty of pleasing a woman it should be men tioned that the woman in question who was young and pretty was also verv wet and everybody kuownsthat a wet woman i.s far more exacting and captious than a dry woman still i inasmuch as this particular young woman was excessively hard to please when she was thoroughly dry it may be assumed that her wetness did not make any material change in her char acter the story i s undoubtedly a true one for it appears in substauee in a missouri democratic paper which cannot tcil a lie as however few of t ie subscribers to the paper can read it can hardly be said that the story has been fairly published in the town of la grange a small settlement on a branch of the missouri river resides au extremly beautiful young hisly among her lovers are two who have hitherto been popular ly regarded as the leaders ofthe field ami on whom the local betting has been very nearly even one of the j two â€” air scott â€” is a young man of the most gentle aud amiable disposi tion whose constant effort is to please his lady-love the apples that young ma iias bought ber the times that he has taken her to ride and the money that he has lavished in ice-cream for her benefit could not be computed without a large consumption of chalk ! in point of moral character he has seldom been equaled and never excel j led lie is especially conspicuous for i his extreme and delicate modesty and 1 it is believed tliat in this particular i in could give odds to the most vio lently and obviously delicate maiden lady of advanced years in missouri or any other stale air dobbs his rival is in all re spects his exact opposite mr dobbs is addicted to horse-racing and other wicked ways and he has never been known to put himself to the slightest inconvenience or expense in order to gratify the young lady whom he pro i fesses to admire ou monday wed nesday and friday evenings â€” the l ether evenings of the week being pre empted by mr scott â€” he is accustom , ed to call on miss wilson â€” whieh bv i the way is the young lady's name â€” and sit for an hour with his chair i tipped back against the wall discuss ! , ing politics with old mr wilson in almost any other town the betting ' would have been heavily in favor of j mr scott but the people of la grange knowing mr dobb's character and being persuaded that when he under , takes ts do anything the chances are ' that he will do it at any cost were rather inclined to back mr dobbs | in fact for the last six months the ; betting has several times beeu ten to ; nine on dobbs and on one occasion j when he bought a new pistol on wednesday morning so hopeful did | his marriage prospects seem to his backers that they offered eight to six on him with few takers it was of ten remaiked that mr scott lacked , energy and that when mr dobbs was | entirely ready to marry the girl he ! would kill mr scott pitch old mr wilson out of the window and carry i off his bride to the nearest justice ofthe | peace three weeks ago miss wilson ! took part in a pic nic excursion and i messrs dobbs and scott of course ' were also in the party the entire i company including say thirty persons : of assorted sexes were lounging after ! dinner on the bank of the stream when | miss wilson suddenly felt a desire to i walk out on a log lhat projected into j the water mr scott implored her | not to do it and mr dobbs tempo rarily removing his pipe from his ; mouth remarked you'll get pretty | blanked wet if you try it neverthe j less the willful beauty persisted in ; her purpose she had nearly reached : the end ofthe log when it turned un i der her aud with a harp shriek she i fell headforemost into the stream j | the water was about four feet dee i with a bottom of soft mud and in this j hitter the head of the unfortunate young lady penetrated some distance : being thus anchored as it were her ; feet waved wildly above the surface and mutely begged for help it was au awful and impressive scene and most of the ladies who were present i subsequently said that no one could ! call them prudish they must say that i miss wilson's conduct was shameful mr scott and mr dobbs simulta i neously rushed to the rescue the j former first reached miss wilson's feet i but instead of seizing them and pul ling ber out stood as though wrapp ed in profouud thought in another moment mr dobbs was at his side and would have caught the nearest of the waving feet had not mr scott laid his hand n his arm and begged ! him to reflect it will be said mr i scott lo the last degree indelicate to i pull her out by the l'eet and i am ! sure she would not like it at any rate let us ask the geutlmen to with j draw and then leave the ladies to ex [ trieate our poor friend to this mr ; dobbs simply made a monosyllabic land theological reply and promptly hauled miss wilson out when that young lady had been somewhat repaired so that she no longer resembled an inverted unibrel i la with a curious duplex handle her first act was lo slap mr dobbs face and tell him that he was a brute ami a coward to insult her by pulling her out by the feet mr scott eager to improve the opportunity hastened to remark that he had warned mr d.ibbs not to do it and had himself refrain ed from touching her feet another slap and a demand to know if he was really fool enough to be willing to let her drown was the reply whieh as tonished mr scott after which miss wilson burst into tears and call ed her father to take her home now here was a young lady who w.is angry with one man because he had pulled her out of the water and with another because he had not done so to please such a girl was mani | festly an impossibility mr scott at all events gave up the attempt and left town that very afternoon without saying good-bye to mr dobbs who was waitiiisjr at a street cros-dng to wish him farewell with a shot-gun j a week later miss wilson married mr dobbs and although it has never been learned that he has done anything whatever to please her there is reason to believe that she is very well recon ciled to her lot â€” n y times fungi in mau the human ear is sometimes attack ed by a disease which shows itself in the form ofa running ssire ; in many cases the tympanum is destroyed audi hearing h.st before the nature of the malady is discovered the disease is ' due to the growth of a microscopic plant or fungus of the aspergillus family it especially thrives when from any cause the secretion of wax in the ear is stopped or hindered the ' microscope is a valuable assistant in the discovery ofthis fungus consumption the most disastrous malady that afflicts humanity is now said to be caused by a yeast plant that flourishes in the blood the presence ofthis fungus in the blood is readily shown by the microscope and now forms the subject of careful stuclv | among physicians dv ephraim cutter m d of bos ! ton mass has devoted much labor to this subject and we understand i has recently produced micro-photo graphs ofthe fungus with tolles re markable objective we believe that dr james ii sal isbury of cleveland ohio was among the earliest to detect and describe this ' curious yeast plant ofthe blood luck and labor many people complain of their bad ! luck when they ought to blame their own want of wisdom and action cob | den a distinguished writer in eng land thus wrote about luck and labor luck is always waiting for some thing to turn up labor with keen eyes and a strong will turns up something luck lies iu bed and wishes the postman would bring him news of a legacy labor turns out at six o'clock and with busy pen or ringing hammer lays the foundation ofa competence luck whines labor whistles luck relies on chance labor on character luck slips down to indigence labor strides upward to indepen dence didn't know it was loaded â€” a sad accieent â€” a very unfortu nate and distressing accident says the wilson advance occurred in nash county last sunday week mr spen cer lindsay called to see his neigh bor mr vv vv cooper and on en tering his house discovered a pistol lying upon the floor where mr cooper's children had been playing with it he reached down to pick it up and mrs cooper remarked that it was not loaded as if to frighten her he cocked the pistol and pointed it at her when it fired the ball enter ing mrs cooper just above the left breast and lodging under the right shoulder dr robert sills of nash ville was sent for at once and upon examining the wound pronounced it fatal slight hopes are entertained of her recovery everything is bitter to him who has gall in his mouth a fool may throw a stone into a pond ; it may take seven sages to pull it out no bones are broken by a mother's fist it is hard to say which is the most crushed : the wife's new bonnet or the unfeeling husband who sat down upon it the editor of daily papers alwavs claim to have country seats don't believe them if they have it is only a stump the world is composed of two great classes of people those who work and those who spend all their time in getting ready to work many young ladies at the sea-side just now seem to tie a string around their waists and consider themselves properly array to take a sea bath in public it is a singular fact that since 1842 there have been yellow fever cases in new orleans every year with the exceptions of 1861 18g2 1863 18g4 and 1865 there may bave been cases during those years but they were not reported â€” wilmington star saying fences this is an item that should be care fully estimated as it is one of the heav iest burdens of agriculture fences are needed only to restrain stock ; and if the stock is not pastured no fence is needed except for yards and per haps a lane to lead the cattle to the wood lot for simple exercise take the fact of fencing ninety acres into four fields for pasturing thirty cows or cattle these fields would be 22 acres and would require 720 rods of fence now if this fence cost only 1 per rod and if we suppose it to last twenty years then the decay will amount to five per cent a year and the labor of annual repair is general ly estimated at five per cent the interest on the original cost at seven per cent would be 50.40 and the ten per cent for decay and repair 72 making s122.40 as the annual expense for fencing a pasture for thirty head ofcatlle we shall see that this is more than the cost of labor for soiling the thirty head of stock mr david williams carefully prepared the fence statistics of walworth counly wis consin and after deducting for waste lands in ponds and lakes aud one-half of the division fences he makes the annual cost forthe whole cou nty about sl per acre mr prince of maine goes into an elaborate calculation of the cost of fences in that state in 18g0 and the result does not vary much from an annual cost of 1 per acre â€” the late ezra cornell took a great in terest in studying tbis question and gave his views in an address before | the state agricultural society of new j york in 18g2 and he arrived at the conclusion that the average cost of â– fencing for every acre inclosed in that | state is 1 per annum if then we | take this as a fair estimate in the old er states every acre ofthe farm must be charged at this rate or a farm of 300 acres which usually keeps about 60 head of cattle would pay a fence tax of 300 in labor and material â€” the smaller the farm and the smaller the lots the greater the cost of fence per acre tapioca cream â€” one coffee-cup of tapioca in three pints of new milk soak over night in the morning set over a kettle of boiling water let it come to a scald stirring it often add four well beaten eggs and about half a pound of white sugar stir constant j ly until it thickens set it aside to cool ; when cold flavor with vanilla ' or lemon and you will have a dish fit for a king this is now about the time of year the lady who goes out of town for her health lands up somewhere in brigh ! ton scarboro or the isle of wight ' with five large anglo-american trunks and two pet dogs she visi bly declines in weight the moment she discovers that another lady has brought seven trunks a lady's maid and a brace of pug lap dogs the impeachment trial of comp troller goldsmith of georgia is pro i gressing very slowly and circumspect i ly and it is stated by one georgia ! newspaper that thus far nothing has been developed against goldsmith nor against the state do all for god tlie practical life of the christian comprehends three distinct elements viz working fighting and suffering we have to do the will of god in our busi ness : this is working we have ts s.p psise our bosom sin and to resist tempta tion â– this is fighting we have finally to endure with cheerfulness and submis sion whatever cross the lord jesus pleases to lay upon us this i.s suffering and to be right in the practical depart ments ofthe christian life is summed up in these three things ts work devoutly to fight manfully and to suffer patitently each man's wisdom ami happiness must consist in doing as well as his faculties will admit tlie work which god sets him and now that the true motive which lifts ii i the humblest duties into a higher atmosphere and refines away their earth lines and glorifies them : whatso ever ye do do it heartily as to the lord and not unto men : knowing that of the lord ye shall receive the reward of the inheritance : for ye serve the lord christ â€” goldburn a malionaxt fkvki ra mississippi â€” new orleans september 15 â€” green ville mississippi specials report the pre valence of a malignant fever at concordia several deaths have occurred during the last week including s frank george tobin ansl attorney key tlie surround ing neighborhoods have quarantined against concordia refused to pat the statement has been made through the public press that tlie etna insurance company has refitted payment of the life policy of ths late col h c patterson of salem this is a matter of not mere family but ol general concern and we bave waited for the ex planation whieh is due of the com pain's refusal to pay over to the family of de ceased tbe amount of insurance which ho had with it it has we understood pro posed to compromise the matter by a par tial payment rt seems tons that if it owes anything it owes all and if it owes nothing on this polity it ought to have found out tliat tlie policy was invalid sometime daring the thirteen years while uol patterson was paying ap his premi ums the whole matter looks suspicious let us have some explanation af it the company is suffering from its silence if its explanation is not worse than its si lence it cannot make lt too early char ob this u well said the divobced democracy â€” what the papers and politicians say of it the hates congratulates the republi cans and says that their opponents aro worthy of their best efforts the herald says that the kobiusou ticket is st mug the world of course commends tho stalwart action of tlio regulars the star upholds the bolters the tribune says that the bolt means cornell for g oven or the philadelphia times thinks that it puts democracy under i blue light lion abram s hewitt sajs that tins defection will have no effect upou tho vote and the con vent oin acted wisely mayor cooper dsclined to be interview ed clarkson potter's friends say that ho will not accept the nomination for lieu tenant-governor john kelly is very silent hoffman follows liobiusou mb curtis unhappy about cobkell â€” the republican nomination for governor of new york is an exceedingly unfortunate one and all that has been said of the un wisdom of precisely such n nomination re mains true the importance of the result in this state both ofthe election this year and of the next is such that it was the duty ofall republicans who understood it to se lect some candidate truly representative of its principles and purposes it will not be contended that with whatever excellencies of character mr cornell is such a repre sentative he h;is been long a familiar fig ure in the parties of the state and whatever may be the personal and friendly regard entertained for him it will be denied tbat it is an extraordinary nomination to b'j made by the republican party in the st j at this time â€” harper's weekly rep the motherly instinct still there â€” a whoop-bang sort of a boy with feet as broad and flat as a vie tin trotted through the central market till he reached a stall kept by a single wo man about thirty years old halting there he yelled out : say ! say ! your little boy ikis been run over and killed by tho city hall !" oh ! oh ! heavens oh ! !" she screamed as she made a dive under the counter came up on the other side aud started to follow the boy after going ten feet she halted looked very foolish ansl all of a sudden remark ed : what a goose i am why i ain't even married !" tin survey ok the dan â€” wo had tits pleasure of a call yesterday from maj 1 ii gill united states associato engineer in charge ofthe survey of the dan river mr gill and his party have completed the survey of dan river from danville to the western limit of the sur vey above madison n c and will now proceed to make it from danville to clarksville after completing the entire survey the notes and charts will be sent ts the chief office at washington and tiie re com niendatioiis submitted as to whether the river shall b improved for the navi gation of steamboats or only for bat teaux â€” danville ( va news lath how the geese departed it is a re markable fact vouched by a witness by no means windy that the severe storm which prevailed last monday a flock of geese mar the stewart house were liter ally lifted from the ground and hurried upon the win of tlie wind rapidly out of sight and as we have reports from differ ent sections of the severity and exten sivenesa of the storm and as 110 tidings have been received from these unfortu nate geese it is supposed by our infor mant that they are still driving beforo that nub tempest into some far-off land ansl with the same velocity he saw them swept from view sad sad casualty â€” mo n rue emp cetywayo a fugitive â€” capetown aug 20 â€” the pursuit of king cetywayo con tinues hotly he baa split np his party and taken to the bush his pursuers have been within three miles of him and have some members of bis following gen ws'lslcv ikis bad a meeting with the north ern chiefs it which be informed them that the only obstacle to the settlement of peaco is the failure to capture cetywayo and that any chief harboring cetywayo will be pun ished lord gilford captured a native who 'â€¢ baa promised to show him the king's hiding j phice the bush wherein he is supposed to iÂ»c becreted ia now being surrounded by : three hundred men he won but it killed him james johnston a well known negro in lynch burg va made a bet at tlie breakfast table that he could eat more fruit than 1 any one present _ silas jones ansl peter lindsey took up ths bet and and all : three set to work eating peaches apples watermelons and grapes johnston won this bet having eaten one watermelon and a half one dozen peaches twelve bunches of grapes and four huge apple he was taken sick an hour after and died last night worktxgmes olt of work â€” ha6 gsÂ»w september 15 â€” in consequence of a resolution arrived at by tho scotch iron masters last week not yielding t demands of the workiugmen for an iii i crease of wages until the price of ir i ceeds fifty shillings per tsm fifty f fur naces have been blown out in various . parts of scotland rendering three thousand men idln